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Offline mechy

Re: Dead 2000
« on: August 05, 2017, 04:06:58 AM »
Quote from: curtis;829101
Guess this thread will go dormant for a couple of weeks while waiting for the chips to come from China!

Stand by to stand by...


wish you had asked curtis, i have loads of 256x4 dip ram chips(i think rev 6 uses those?)
 

Offline mechy

Re: Dead 2000
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2017, 05:48:50 PM »
Quote from: magnetic;829119
Hey mechy do you have DIP chips for a commodore a2058 board?

I only have 256x4 and 1mx4...i think the 2058 uses 1mx1? and i don't have any.
 

Offline mechy

Re: Dead 2000
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2017, 06:32:24 PM »
Quote from: curtis;828974
Finally got my 2000 back on the workbench and now it won't boot.

My symptoms are a black screen and 10 short blinks and 1 long blink on the power LED.

I've swapped out both the cpu and the ROM for known goods and no joy.

Checked voltages on the power supply and they're good.

I've got an Indivision installed and I don't even get the "splash" screen from it.

Suggestions?

Oh, it's a rev 6.2 motherboard.

Right now there are no boards installed at all.  It's basically bare metal with only a floppy drive.

Curtis, check agnus, make sure its the right one and make sure all motherboard jumpers set right. check for cracked socket and bad socket pins.

has the psu lost TICK signal?
 

Offline mechy

Re: Dead 2000
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2017, 05:01:53 AM »
Quote from: JuMa;829876
I'm starting to suspect bad contact or trace somewhere. If I lift the board a bit or even tap disk drive instant restart/freeze. If trying to load a game it loads few secs but then stops.

Remove every chip, clean if necessary and inspect all pins and sockets. it smacks of bad contacts, pay attention especially to Agnus(cracked sockets are common).
The cpu socket also.
I've had a a3000t that had a bad socket that was broken underneath between board and socket and you couldn't see it at all. really fun to find it, i spent a hour with it running prodding with a plastic stick on sockets and chips till i made it crash. It was a factory defective socket that just happened to act up when i got the machine.

Bad psu voltages on the +5 rail can also make a machine crash and or boot random.
 

Offline mechy

Re: Dead 2000
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2017, 05:16:22 AM »
Quote from: curtis;829844
IF I had a composite crt, I would be happy to do that.  Unfortunately, I do not.

a 1084 thru rgb would be great but i guess no 1084 either?

These little 7" lcds are great for test monitor, they take pal/ntsc COMPOSITE in and do 4:3 usually.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-LCD-Car-Rear-View-Monitor-Wireless-Parking-Night-Vision-Backup-Camera-Kit-/272788663880?hash=item3f8378ae48:g:rIAAAOSwighZgpbJ

u can probably find a better priced one, its just the link i grabbed first.

heres another:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-TFT-LCD-Digital-RGB-HD-Screen-Car-Monitor-For-Rear-View-Camera-DVD-GPS-VCD/271849458345?_trkparms=aid%3D555014%26algo%3DPL.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3D8717290109ab438fba9c941dd9a01b8f%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226

good luck on the 2000,if all fails change the oscillator.
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